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County to approve $4B 2015-2016 budget

Palm Beach County commissioners are expected to approve the 2015-2016 budget after a public hearing scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. today at the Robert Weisman Governmental Center at 301 N. Olive Ave. in West Palm Beach.

The proposed budget would keep the county’s tax rate at $4.78 per $1,000 in taxable property value. That rate, plus an additional 15 cents per $1,000 in taxable property value for county debt, would mean the owner of a $200,000 homestead would pay $739.50 in county property taxes.

That $739.50 would not include taxes levied by other entities such as the towns, the school district or the South Florida Water Management District.

If the proposed budget is approved, the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office would get $553.7 million and county employees would get a 3 percent cost-of-living raise.